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Cannabis may well have beneficial properties, but experts warn that smoking it is still bad for your health.

Organ donations are rare in SA: donors and the specialists needed to do transplants are few. But awareness increases as more lives are being saved.

These "cancer-fighting" molecules may not be the good guys we have been led to believe.

Will local facial hair campaigners be able to raise more than last year's R7-million for men's health issues?

Breast cancer expert, Justus Apffelstaedt, explains the complexities around the issue of screening for this disease.

SureTouch does not claim to be a substitute for proper breast cancer screening, but patients are being misled.

There are many advantages to breastfeeding but should mothers be bribed to do it?

An antioxidant found in tea brewed from the indigenous plant offers hope for new treatments.

The country is fighting the intellectual property laws that hiked up the cost of its HIV programme.

Two young people speak out about life, and love, and the very real risk of rejection.

Female condoms have sensualised sexual health thanks to the increased tactility of new materials.

Some have lauded the draft policy, saying it could make medication cheaper, but others say it is "unimpressive" and "almost contradictory".

A generic version of a key cancer drug is now available in South Africa, but at a significantly higher cost than it is available internationally.

Even though traces of cancer-causing chemicals have been found, the real killer – tobacco – is absent.

Medical apps could drastically improve lives, but can't be accessed by those who need them most.

China has reduced childhood deaths and illness from diseases that were once widespread.